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12 EDITORIALS. (Continued from page 9.) Half a dozen big-mouthed, big-headed black bass will devour all the small fish of a large pond—to the eternal detriment of the little fish so devoured, and of the pond thus depop ulated. ( If Jake Schiff will amend his simile and com pare Rockefeller and Morgan to the big fish that eat the little fish, he will have his oratory in tune with the facts. n The Jeffersonian is rejoiced to see, in the Atlanta Constitution, the statement of Hon. R. F. Duckworth denying the story that “Bar rett and Jordan have buried the hatchet,” and that the Farmers’ Union and the Southern Cot ton Association would henceforth pull to gether. The story was calculated to do President Barrett and the Farmers’ Union great injury. Everybody knows that Harvie Jordan is now running with Wall Street gamblers, like Hoadley, and that the Manufacturers are in control of Jordan’s mongrel Association. It is all natural enough for the manufactur ers to band themselves together to retain the Special Privileges which they enjoy under the High Tariff laws, but it would be passing strange if the farmers were so silly as to al low these Beneficiaries of Special Privilege to control the farmers’ organization also. Surely the farmers are entitled to have ONE association of their own. Whenever the manufacturers let down the gap for the farmers to enter the Manufactur ers’ Association, it will be time enough for the farmers to take manufacturers into their or ganization. * A local grain dealer of Thomson, Ga.. has for many years been selling corn in carload lots to the local trade. Recently he has been put out of business, just as the stonecutters at Lithonia were knocked out. He couldn’t get his goods handled by the railroads. He lost five carloads of corn in transit, had others delayed so long that the corn was rotten when it reached him, and finally got this letter from the Memphis firm from which he had been purchasing: (Copy) CHAS. D. JONES COMPANY, Grain and Hay, Memphis Trust Building. Memphis, March 30, 1907. Mr. A. L. McLean, Thomson, Ga. Dear Sir:—We have yours of the 28th, en closing specifications for a car to be shipped to Messrs. G. W. &G. F. Granade. We have entered this order for shipment, but beg to say, as advised in our letter of yesterday, that at present we arc unable to get cars routed to Thomson by any route whatever. Yours truly, CHAS. D. JONES COMPANY. * The letter referred to above as “our letter of yesterday” is illuminating: (Copy) Memphis, March 29, 1907. Mr. A. L. McLean, Thomson, Ga. Dear Sir: —After writing you this morning we started your order for Messrs. Boatwright Sc Son to the warehouse for shipment and were advised by the N. C. & St. L. Road that they could not receive freight for delivery to the Georgia Railroad at Atlanta, owing to the congested condition of the latter road at that point. We are unable to figure out any other route by which we can ship this car, unless we were to endeavor to get the Southern Road to take it around and bring it down by Augus ta, but our experience with the Southern Road has been such that we doubt if the shipment made this way would reach you before late in the spring. WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN We thought it best to acquaint you fully with the facts, so that you would not be in position to blame us if we are unable to get this shipment off. We will use every effort to get it out, but unless the Georgia Railroad is in position to receive the shipment at At lanta, we do not see how it can be made. Yours truly, CHAS. D. JONES COMPANY. Now isn’t that a pretty kettle of fish? Here is a citizen of Georgia engaged in a legitimate business which*is simply destroyed by the failure of the Common Carriers to per form the functions for which they are char tered. Does my friend, Hon. Jacob Phinizy, still consider the management of Capt. Scott the best that the Georgia Railroad ever had? Did it ever happen before his administration that Memphis declined to do business with Thomson because there was no Common Car rier to transport the freight? The Jeffersonian will publish another letter from President Phinizy, if he so desires. * The Southern Express Company is a Geor gia corporation. And among all the raven ously hoggish rate-makers that exploit the public, there is none more greedy. Its charges are as arbitrary as they are unmerciful. 'rhe Legislature which is to meet in June would deserve well of the country if it would give the Southern Express a thorough over hauling. No corporation doing business in this state needs it worse. Incidentally, did you ever see a better week ly paper than last week’s Jeffersonian? Sam Small and Gordon Nye are a pair of trumps— don’t you think ? Brother, say a good word for us. It was two years ago that the late Samuel Spencer was lauding the prosperity of the sections served by the Southern Railwav and claiming that his system had produced the prosperity and was getting its full share of it. Why, then, does President Finley now stand in the same places where his predecessor then stood and plead the laissez faire license for his road under cover of the pauper oath? The Missouri World is one of our best ex changes. It is a tribune of the people. Not only does it know the pulse of the people’s aspirations, but knows how to interpret them with words of wisdom and power. •I M H Editorial Comments. By J. D. Watson. In his Chattanooga speech, Hon. John Tem ple Graves suggested that Mr. Bryan nomi nate Mr. Roosevelt for President in 1908. In his Chicago address Mr. Graves suggested that Roosevelt nominate Bryan. A loyal friend of Mr. Hearst’s suggests that Mr. Graves, being a personal friend of Mr. Roosevelt, Mr. Bryan and Mr. Hearst, per suade Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Bryan to nomi nate Hearst. The Washington Post solves the problem in this manner: Graves has asked Bryan to nominate Roosevelt and Roosevelt to nominate Bryan, and having re ceived no enthusiastic response from either Mr. Bryan or Mr. Roosevelt, it is only fit and proper that both the President and Mr. Bry an nominate Mr. Graves for President in 1908. Mr. Graves may be heard from on this ques tion soon. Tn the meantime, the Seneca (S. C.) Jour nal “draps into poetry” and says: “Says Johnny T. to William J.: ‘You see the game we have to play, Exert yourselves for Teddy R., He’ll prove a Democratic star.’ Says William J., T do not see Exactly what’s in this for me.’ ” But it should be remembered that it was the Iroquois Democratic Club, of Chicago, that first nominated Roosevelt for the Presidency for 1908. The Iroquois did this at its annual banquet two years ago. It now looks as if Mr. Bryan will be the Democratic nominee for President in 1908, and it also looks like the Democratic donkey will die another death about election time of the same year. Instead of the death of the said animal being caused by Parkerisis, as in 1904, it is likely to die of Bryanitis in 1908. At any rate Bryanitis is a death that the poor animal is more accustomed to. The time for the meeting of the Georgia Legislature is fast approaching. The people of the State expect it to enact into law the re forms advocated by Hon. Hoke Smith in his campaign. We have a reform Governor-elect but he is unable to put his idea into laws with out the aid of the legislature. Most of the members of this body were elected as Hoke Smith men. The people who elected them expect them to vote for the mea sures advocated in his campaign. Some sudden and unexpected changes have taken place in the views of members of the legislature heretofore, and the same changes may take place again. If the President of the Senate or the Speak er of the House happens to be anti Hoke Smith, he will have the appointing of the Com mittee on Rules, and you may bet that said committee will so formulate the rules that every reform measure can be blocked. Here is where the corporation crowd will put in its slick work, and here is where the danger to Mr. Smith’s administration lies. This brings us to the question, does Mr. Smith intend to take a part in the organiza tion of the next legislature? If he does not, his hands will be tied hard and fast, and it will be a grievous mistake on the part of Mr. Smith. With the President of the Senate, or Speak er of the House against him, Mr. Smith will be hampered, if not helpless. Mr. Smith, now is the time to begin your great work. The more active part you take in the election of the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House, in order that your proposd reforms may be put into laws, the more likely they are to be made laws. Es pecially is this true of the Senate, for the Georgia State Senate is almost equal to that body of “Mugwumps” called the United States Senate, when it comes to blocking good laws. As suggested in a former issue of the Week ly Jeffersonian, it would do no harm to give us a public school law, and make our public schools Free Schools. When a child of seven or eight years of age is made to study an arithmetic which has ex amples that belong to Geometry, how do you expect that child to learn anything? When the parent has to pay from fifty cents to one dollar per month for incidentals, is it a Free School? You may “cram” the child so it can work the example but the child does not understand it when it does so, but you cannot “cram” the parent who has to pay the incidental fees so he will understand that it is a Free School. Nor does he believe the public school is a Free School when he sees the bill for new school books which slaps him in the face every now and then. i Text books are changed too often. There should be uniform Text Books throughout the State, and the State should furnish these books Free, just as it furnishes the school house and the school teacher. J. D. W.